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CLASSIFICATION


The Ebola virus and related Marburg virus:


  • are members of the Filovirus family
  • are pleomorphic (take on many forms)
  • are negative-sense RNA viruses
  • cause disease in humans and non-human primates
  • virus genome is 19 kb long
  • target monocytes and macrophages, crippling the body's immune response.






Reference:

Sullivan, N., Yang, Z., & Nabel, G. (2003, September). Ebola virus pathogenesis . Journal of Virology, 77(18), Retrieved from http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC224575/